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I ordered a Raspberry Pi about 6 weeks ago, completely forgot about it, then yesterday I found an email I had ignored from the seller (they had been sending some newsletters that I keep forgetting to unsubscribe from, so I assumed it was one of those) saying it had shipped and would arrive today. Now I have it, and am getting ready to install Raspbmc[^] and try to make a home media system from it (nothing fancy, I just want something that supports more formats than my current media system, commonly known as an "Xbox 360"). If it proves capable, I'll have to go out and buy a NAS and a dedicated SD card (just planning on using my tablet's for now, not like my tablet is using it).

Websense is software that allows the net Nazis at your company to block certain websites. I was just browsing this list, which I think are the types of sites Websense can block. If you expand "Baseline Categories", you can see the categories, and many of them make sense (e.g., adult material, drugs, games, gambling, spam, and so on).

However, I found some of the categories a little interesting, including:

Abortion (which is split into pro-life and pro-choice, so presumably you could block just a certain perspective)

Years ago, I worked on a project which sent traffic through a web filtering appliance (our goal was to avoid sites with high incidents of zero-day viruses and to help our customers not get sued for sexual harassment.) Some of the categories were extremely specific. The one that I still remember is "Bomb making."

Incidentally, we also had fun finding out how some sites were categorized. Due to overlapping definitions and clearly some errors, the results were sometimes funny. For example, a Christian dating site a coworker sometimes used got categorized as adult material (though other dating sites were let through.)

To which you can also add religion. I was twice blocked by the NetNazi on this category, once visiting such subversive materials as www.durhamcathedral.co.uk/[^] to find the date of a concert I wanted to attend and the other was trying to get an Islamic calendar to make sure the missus & I didn't book a holiday in Jordan during Ramadan. At one point it also blocked the whole of the BBC Arabic news site which I was trying to access to try and improve my reading skills, can't remember why, it might have been "Foreign Language", the Farsi version worked though.

My tablet just popped up a reminder "Sue (Michelle work) birthday" so I reminded Herself that she needs to get a card for her boss.

Of course she wants to know how I knew...

So I told her that Google knows who I am (true) and that we are together. So it looked at her NI code and worked out where she worked, then found her bosses name, and searched the internet to find out her birthday and sent me a reminder because it can't contact her directly.

With a straight face.

She is now getting kinda paranoid and doesn't believe the truth: I put an annual reminder in my system last year when she asked me to get a card for Sue.

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.